A Few Things That I Thought Were Interesting

• I don't think I have read a single newspaper article about Ben Carson that didn't contain the phrase "soft-spoken". Talk about cliches...
• Interesting article in the New York Times today about K-12 students and internet access. It said that 70% of teachers assign homework that requires internet access but that one-third of K-12 students in the country don't have broadband access.
• I read another article in the New Yorker that was speculating about why Bernie Sanders is as popular as he is even with the "socialist" label, which would have been a disqualifier just a few years ago. One of the ideas she suggested is that the Fox News crowd has been mischaracterizing Obama as a socialist for seven years, so the stigma has kind of been removed. If we've already had a socialist president, what's the big deal? Finally something to thank Fox News for!
• The astonishing tax plans of the Republican candidates (reminiscent of Paul Ryan's various hoax plans) show that the GOP has never really interested in reducing the deficit or the debt. The plans of Trump, Rubio, and Cruz would add somewhere between $12 and $16 trillion to the debt over ten years.